Author: Douglas MacArthurPublisher:
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Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
General MacArthur's Address Before the Joint Meeting of Congress
Author: Douglas MacArthurPublisher:
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Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
An Address by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Before a Joint Session of the Congress of the United States, April 19, 1951, Washington
Author: Douglas MacArthurPublisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Address Before Joint Session of Congress
Author: Douglas MacArthurPublisher:
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Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contain speech made after MacArthur was relieved of his command in Korea by President Truman.
Address of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at a Joint Meeting of the Two Houses in the Hall of the House of Representatives, April 19, 1951
Author: Douglas MacArthurDuty, Honor, Country
Author: Douglas MacArthurPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789125375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
The present volume, first published in 1962, consists of two distinguished speeches given by the General of the U.S. Army, Douglas MacArthur. The first address took place on April 19, 1951 and was held before a joint meeting of the two houses of United States Congress—the House of Representatives and the Senate—and took place in the Hall of the House of Representatives. This meeting followed on just one week from MacArthur’s removal from command by President Harry S. Truman. The second address was held on May 12, 1921 and was given to The Members of the Association of Graduates, U.S.M.A., The Corps of Cadets, and Distinguished Guests. It was given on the occasion of MacArthur’s acceptance of the Sylvanus Thayer Award for outstanding service to the nation, which had gone to Eisenhower the year before. The event was held at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
MacArthur
Author: Douglas MacArthurPublisher:
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Category : Patriotism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Comments on the Address of General Douglas MacArthur Before the Congress
Author: Austin Edwards GRIFFITHSPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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"Old Soldiers Never Die."
Author: Douglas MacArthurGreat Americans Speak
Author: Frederick Clifton PackardPublisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Douglas MacArthur
Author: Arthur HermanPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812985109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation’s great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim—from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America’s most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank? Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Arthur Herman delivers a powerhouse biography that peels back the layers of myth—both good and bad—and exposes the marrow of the man beneath. MacArthur’s life spans the emergence of the United States Army as a global fighting force. Its history is to a great degree his story. The son of a Civil War hero, he led American troops in three monumental conflicts—World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Born four years after Little Bighorn, he died just as American forces began deploying in Vietnam. Herman’s magisterial book spans the full arc of MacArthur’s journey, from his elevation to major general at thirty-eight through his tenure as superintendent of West Point, field marshal of the Philippines, supreme ruler of postwar Japan, and beyond. More than any previous biographer, Herman shows how MacArthur’s strategic vision helped shape several decades of U.S. foreign policy. Alone among his peers, he foresaw the shift away from Europe, becoming the prophet of America’s destiny in the Pacific Rim. Here, too, is a vivid portrait of a man whose grandiose vision of his own destiny won him enemies as well as acolytes. MacArthur was one of the first military heroes to cultivate his own public persona—the swashbuckling commander outfitted with Ray-Ban sunglasses, riding crop, and corncob pipe. Repeatedly spared from being killed in battle—his soldiers nicknamed him “Bullet Proof”—he had a strong sense of divine mission. “Mac” was a man possessed, in the words of one of his contemporaries, of a “supreme and almost mystical faith that he could not fail.” Yet when he did, it was on an epic scale. His willingness to defy both civilian and military authority was, Herman shows, a lifelong trait—and it would become his undoing. Tellingly, MacArthur once observed, “Sometimes it is the order one disobeys that makes one famous.” To capture the life of such an outsize figure in one volume is no small achievement. With Douglas MacArthur, Arthur Herman has set a new standard for untangling the legacy of this American legend. Praise for Douglas MacArthur “This is revisionist history at its best and, hopefully, will reopen a debate about the judgment of history and MacArthur’s place in history.”—New York Journal of Books “Unfailingly evocative . . . close to an epic . . . More than a biography, it is a tale of a time in the past almost impossible to contemplate today as having taken place, with MacArthur himself as a figure perhaps too remote to understand, but all the more important to encounter.”—The New Criterion “With Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior, the prolific and talented historian Arthur Herman has delivered an expertly rendered, compulsively readable account that does full justice to MacArthur’s monumental achievements without slighting his equally monumental flaws.”—Commentary